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I agree, it is very good. He is not just reading an Ancient Greek text, but he is acting it out. Having clearly internalized the text himself, he allows us to internalize it better than if he were just reading it straight. You can compare it to the straight reading he did of Luke a year ago. And the input is more comprehensible because of the movements and visual aids.

That's a Modern Greek pronunciation. I like it. My favorite Modern Greek reader is Dr. Spiros Zodhiates. I heartily recommend purchasing his audio CD.

However, I support and use a recovered pronunciation:

1) There are too many vowel collisions Modern Greek. It becomes impossible to spell and too many different words sound the same.2) Poetry does not scan in a Modern Greek pronunciation, as modern Greek has lost both tonal quality and vowel length.

However, I believe that John Stuart Blackie was a great proponent of using the modern pronunciation. As was Heinrich Schiemann. Both believed that it makes learning Greek far easier.

Regardless, as technology makes audio/visual language learning easier, I think that recovered pronunciations of Greek will really take off. Check back and see where we're at in a couple of years!